Judith Halberstam: The Queer Art of Failure

Cover: 9780822350453 | The Queer Art of Failure | Judith Halberstam | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one’s way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. Halberstam pays particular attention to animated children’s films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido.

Über den Autor

Jack Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as Female Masculinity and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction: Low Theory 1

1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27

2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53

3. The Queer Art of Failure 87

4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123

5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147

6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173

Notes 189

Bibliography 193

Index 201

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822350453
ISBN-10:	0822350459
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Halberstam, Judith
Hersteller:	MNG University Presses John Hope Franklin Center Book
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	37 illustrations, incl. 14 in color
Maße:	236 x 146 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Judith Halberstam
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.09.2011
Gewicht:	0,334 kg